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Test Bank for Practical Management Science 6th Edition by Wayne Winston and S. Albright isbn-9781337406659
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1. Models that suggest a desirable course of action are called descriptive models
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2. In modeling situations where it is not possible to write an equation for an output in terms of
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the inputs, there may still be a mathematical procedure for calculating outputs from inputs.
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3. In a descriptive model, the manager first wants to build a model that reflects the current situation.
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4. One of the advantages of spreadsheet models is that they allow managers to ask what-if questions.
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TOPICS: 1.2 A Capital Budgeting Example - An Optimization
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5. One of the arguments that management science practitioners have used to criticize the
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emphasis on specific models is that they do not provide the correct answer.
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